Electric Dirt

Electric Dirt
Studio album by Levon Helm
Released	June 30, 2009
Studio	, Woodstock, New York
Genre	Roots rock, country rock, Americana, R&B
Length	43 min
Label	Dirt Farmer/Vanguard
Producer	Larry Campbell
Levon Helm chronology
Dirt Farmer (2007) Electric Dirt (2009)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Music Box	[2]
The New Yorker	(favorable)[3]
Rolling Stone	[4]
Uncut	[5]

Electric Dirt is the final studio album from American musician Levon Helm, released in 2009. It is the follow-up to his Grammy-winning 2007 album Dirt Farmer. In Uncut's list of the 150 best albums between 2000 through 2009, Electric Dirt was listed 80th. It won the first ever Grammy Award for Best Americana Album, an inaugural category in 2010.^[6] The track "Growin' Trade", cowritten with Larry Campbell, was Helm's first cowritten song since his debut solo album, Levon Helm & the RCO All-Stars.

Track listing[]

1. "Tennessee Jed" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 5:58
2. "Move Along Train" (Roebuck Staples) – 3:22
3. "Growin' Trade" (Levon Helm, Larry Campbell) – 4:22
4. "Golden Bird" (Happy Traum) – 5:11
5. "Stuff You Gotta Watch" (Muddy Waters) – 3:38
6. "White Dove" (Carter Stanley) – 3:29
7. "Kingfish" (Randy Newman) – 4:24
8. "You Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had" (Muddy Waters) – 4:01
9. "When I Go Away" (Larry Campbell) – 4:32
10. "Heaven’s Pearls" (Anthony Leone, Byron Isaacs, Fiona McBain, Amy Helm, Glenn Patscha) – 4:09
11. "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" (Richard Carroll Lamp, Willy E. Taylor) – 3:25
12. "That's Alright" (Arthur Crudup, iTunes only) – 4:53

Productions notes[]

• Cover art conception: Levon Helm
• Cover art production: Michael (Mike) DuBois
• Photos: Ahron R. Foster
• Layout and design: Carrie Smith

References[]

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